Legends for (Vector) maps

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that's the question...from my point of view is legend connected to the map but I understand that legend depends more on themes then on map. Locus store is wrong place because internal themes are not in store and I expect that store contains maps not the legend. I think that current solution is quite suitable.

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Unfortunately I'm not able to simulate it. I've tried chrome, default browser, opera mini, dolphin and all browsers show the page correctly

Color codes

Inspiration for me was the http://www.pistes-nordiques.org site that is now the http://www.opensnowmap.org/

Honestly I wanted to remove the difference for backcountry skiing tracks and leave only one general style (the same) for all types of backcountry skiing tracks. But I expect the you would kill me for this :) Can you give me some example of "standardized" style for backcountry skiing tracks?

@1) Oh, yes, the default themes are not in Store > By Usage > Graphic > Themes, but only additional themes... So store is really the wrong position for a legend :) Maybe it's easy to implement a documentation icon in the theme switcher (callable from right button bar) like in other dialogs?

@2) For me, it's not important, as I have the Opera mini option :) As long as not a bigger amount of users say that they have the same issue, it's IMHO not so relevant.

I can't open pistes-nordiques.org Other colors are used e.g. by the OSM based http://www.xctrails.org/map.html?type=xc# or the official German XC portal (by tourist info and ski clubs) http://www.loipenportal.de/schwarzwald use the other color codes (blue/red/black).

You can remove the color codes if you want to, as I can simply use another vector theme ;-) I experience colors for difficulties as helpful, e.g. when going with beginners or when it's icy or when I want a more demanding track.

@1) I'll discuss it with menion...

Old pistes-nordiques.org site is now the: http://www.opensnowmap.org/

There is ont point I've forgot to mention. The downhill slopes are rendered in (blue/red/black) style which seems to be used in whole Europe. So can we use similar colours for backcountry skiing tracks? I mean that it causes similar colors for different type of tracks (even if backcountry skiing track will have green outline)

I tried again and got a plain grey page in Browser, and the expected content in Opera Mini. I printed it as PDF so it works also offline.

That's exactly what we wanted to create when the legend was prepared. I mean to create some "legend" map. There was and unfortunately still is one issue - the text labels. We're not able to ensure that all text/lables in this legend map would be shown on the map.

Honestly the images for legend was prepared from screen-shots of special vector maps that contain only limited elements...

Could you match the dummy map with a dummy overlay to display a legend?

match with dummy overlay? I'm sorry but don't understand?

To have a "example vector map" with a legend as bitmap (or characters modeled as streets or the like) sounds great, because it would display a legend for all themes.

Uff it could be probably possible but it's little bit tricky. It's "only" legend and sorry I don't like the suggestion with overlay. We're planing to improve the rendering of the text labels for vector maps in next year. As soon as we'll be able to handle text correctly then we can discuss about dummy vector maps as legend.

These symbols should respect the signs used in the field - they don't tell anything about character this track (at least in Czech Rep). Symbols are rendered based on the value osmc:symbol

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:osmc:symbol . Possible values of this OSM tag are shown at http://www.wanderreitkarte.de/symbols_en.html

The rectangle symbol only corresponds the values that are defined in raw OSM data osmc:symbol = blue:white:blue_rectangle . Eq: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3182485/history

So the question is: are these paths really marked with color rectangle?